Carbidopa-Levodopa Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Sinemet, Carbidopa-Levodopa 25-100, Sinemet 25/100 (Show all)
What is Carbidopa-Levodopa?
Levodopa is a dopamine precursor used to treat the movement disorder symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Carbidopa is often included with levodopa-containing drugs in order to boost its efficacy by slowing down the metabolism of dopamine.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat Parkinson's | 660 |
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127 |
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 50 |
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| Slowness | 36 |
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| Other | 29 |
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| Treat Parkinson's Disease | 20 |
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| tremor | 19 |
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See all 995 patients currently taking Carbidopa-Levodopa
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Carbidopa-Levodopa. See all 162 dosages ►
| 100 mg all the time (24/7) | 100mg as needed | 10mg-100mg as needed | 10mg as needed | 11 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 12mg as needed | 1.5 25mg-100mg as needed | 1other as needed | 2 25mg-100mg as needed | 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 25 mg-100 mg as needed | 25mg-100mg as needed | 25 mg-250 mg all the time (24/7) | 25 mg-250 mg as needed | 25mg-250mg as needed | 25mg as needed | 2.5 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 2 x 10 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 3 25mg-100mg as needed | 3 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 4.5 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 4 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 6 x 25 mg-100 mg all the time (24/7) | 7 25mg-250mg as needed | 7 mg all the time (24/7) | 8 25mg-250mg as needed | as needed | daily | 0.25 mg daily | 0.5 mg daily | 1 mg daily | 1 other daily | 1.5 mg daily | 1.5 other daily | 2 mg daily | 2 tbs. daily | 3 cap(s) daily | 3 mg daily | 3 other daily | 3.5 mg daily | 3.5 other daily | 3.5 tab(s) daily | 25 mg weekly | 3.75 mg daily | 4 g daily | 4 mg daily | 4 mmol/L daily | 4 other daily | 4.5 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 6 mg daily | 6 other daily | 8 mg daily | 8 other daily | 9 mg daily | 10 mg daily | 12 mg daily | 12.5 mg daily | 15 mg daily | 20 mg daily | 25 mg daily | 25 tbs. daily | 25.1 mg daily | 4 x 25 mg-100 mg every other week | 37.5 mg daily | 40 mg daily | 25 mg-100 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 60 mg daily | 62.5 mg daily | 25 mg-100 mg one time | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 10 mg-100 mg daily | 25 mg-100 mg daily | 115 mg daily | 125 mg daily | 137 mg daily | 138 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 1.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1.75 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 2 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 2 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 50 mg-200 mg daily | 225 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 25 mg-250 mg daily | 2.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 251 mg daily | 275 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 3 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 3 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 330 mg daily | 3.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1.5 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 375 mg daily | 2 x 50 mg-200 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 4 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 4 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 450 mg daily | 4.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 2 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 525 mg daily | 550 mg daily | 5.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 3 x 50 mg-200 mg daily | 600 mg daily | 6 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 6 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 625 mg daily | 660 mg daily | 6.75 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 700 mg daily | 7 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 3 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 750 mg daily | 7.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 4 x 50 mg-200 mg daily | 800 mg daily | 8 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 8 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 8.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 3.5 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 900 mg daily | 9 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 950 mg daily | 120 x 25 mg-250 mg monthly | 1000 mg daily | 10 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 4 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 10.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1100 mg daily | 11 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 4.5 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 1200 mg daily | 12 x 10 mg-100 mg daily | 12 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 6 x 50 mg-200 mg daily | 12.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 5 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 13 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 13.5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1375.5 mg daily | 14 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1500 mg daily | 15 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 6 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 16 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 1750 mg daily | 18 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 20 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | 8 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 2200 mg daily | 9 x 25 mg-250 mg daily | 2400 mg daily | 1100 x 25 mg-100 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Doctor's advice
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37 | 38% |
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Other
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25 | 26% |
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Did not seem to work
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21 | 21% |
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Side effects too severe
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15 | 15% |
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Personal research
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9 | 9% |
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Not indicated
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8 | 8% |
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Course of treatment ended
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4 | 4% |
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Expense
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2 | 2% |
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See all 97 patients who’ve stopped taking Carbidopa-Levodopa
Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- browncat87
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: none
- Chest: none
- Legs: none
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- browncat87
- 3 25mg-100mg as needed
- since Feb 18, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat Parkinson's
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- wishpeace
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: none
- Chest: none
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- wishpeace
- 8 x 25 mg-100 mg daily
- since Jun 07, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for tremor, hand
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips taking generic of sinemet and using insurance is much less costly. this med was increased about 6 mos. ago due to slight increase in tremor and start of tr... See full evaluation
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- rachenitsa
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- rachenitsa
- 5 x 25 mg-100 mg daily
- since Jan 10, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Take as directed and call the doctor f there are any problems See full evaluation
See all 163 patient evaluations
Report created on November 20, 2009.